Re: Testing LUA: verify the correctness of a UTF16 LUA port

[john <john@...>]

Joshua Jensen wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Given
> Date: 10/14/2009 8:31 PM
> > Joshua Jensen wrote:
> > [...]
> > > LuaPlus achieves this via a C-like string representation:
> > >
> > > HelloWorld = L"Hello world!"
> > What does LuaPlus do for things like string comparison and surrogates?
> It does the equivalent of wcscmp(), only it doesn't rely on the C 
> runtime to achieve this.  That's because on some non-Visual C++ 
> compilers, sizeof(wchar_t) != 2.  sizeof(lua_WChar) is always 2.
>
> My understanding is that UCS-2 doesn't support surrogates.  I don't 
> think Microsoft's C runtime wide character library supports them 
> either.  I could be wrong.

WinNT kernel doesn't know anything about UTF-16 it's pure UCS-2 coded 
;) so, it's a myth that Windows is Unicode aware